Floating Points & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra – Mere Mortals
Fourteen movements and an hour of ballet on the myth of Pandora, with Sam Shepherd playing synthesisers live from inside the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
Alternatiu
Rock alternatiu —o rock alternativo— i propostes que no encaixen en cap altra etiqueta: Tótum Revolútum Press hi recull novetats discogràfiques, concerts i entrevistes de bandes que construeixen un so propi, al marge dels circuits més comercials.
The Crystal Teardrop – Love You More
Twelve songs cut live in the studio, with electric sitar, swarmandal and Hammond organ. The second album by the Stoke-on-Trent quintet, out on Popclaw.
Milan reissue Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “1996” and bring it to vinyl in the US for the first time
Out on 11 December, newly remastered, on two LPs and double cassette with the original artwork. It is the record where Sakamoto remade his own pieces for piano, cello and violin.
Björk releases the “Orkestral” concert she played with the Hamrahlíð Choir in Reykjavík on 27 November
It comes out on LP, CD, Blu-ray and DVD on One Little Independent. The concert is from 24 October 2021 at the Harpa hall, drawing mostly on “Medúlla”.
Jespfur – Iftangible
Ten tracks and thirty minutes of electronics, lo-fi and shoegaze about having nowhere to live. Jesper Vervoort says the record was building the home while he made it.
David Byrne and Daniel Pemberton release “Let Me Sell You a Dream”, the song that closes Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary
The song closes MUSK, Alex Gibney’s documentary, which opens tomorrow in New York and Los Angeles. Byrne wrote it using phrases Musk has used himself in interviews and statements.
The Fierce and the Dead – Regional Theatre
The Londoners’ fifth album is the first with a full-time keyboard player: ten songs that don’t reach forty minutes and trade the long build for the chorus.
Josh Homme brings Beck, St. Vincent and Norah Jones together for a benefit at the Wiltern on 16 November
One night for the Sweet Stuff Foundation and CORE, with The Kills, Chad Smith, Weird Al Yankovic and Jack Black. Tickets go on general sale on 9 October.
Faith No More and Judas Priest headline Copenhell 2027, from 23 to 26 June in Copenhagen
The third European date announced for the Faith No More return, after Mystic in Gdańsk and Rock For People. Tickets go on sale on 9 October at 10.00.
Joan Wasser sings “Save Me” with Iggy Pop, his vocal cut in a hotel room in New Zealand
The song is from “Real Life Evolution”, which came out in June. The twentieth anniversary tour adds a Barcelona date that still has neither venue nor day.
Mercury Rev reissue “Boces”, the last album with David Baker, remastered at AIR Studios
It is out on 13 November through Beggars Banquet in a UK and European edition. It was the band’s second album and their first for a major.
L7 finish a 2003 demo and release it as “Loma Linda” on the day the farewell tour starts
Donita Sparks found the song in the archive: they cut it with Janis Tanaka, who has returned on bass after Jennifer Finch’s death. Free download for the first week.
Peel Dream Magazine put out “Blind Faith”, one of four unreleased songs on the expanded “Taurus”
The expanded edition arrives on 11 November through Topshelf and is the first on vinyl. Joe Stevens shelved the song in 2024 and came back to it.
Primavera Sound unveils the line-up for its twenty-fifth edition, with Turnstile, Pavement and Full Of Hell among 151 names
3 to 5 June at the Parc del Fòrum. Massive Attack make their festival debut after rain washed out their 2026 show, and tickets go on sale on the 9th.
Siichaq – The Righteous Sword
Twenty-eight and a half minutes of Atlanta shoegaze with the vocal pushed to the front of the mix and hip-hop drum machines underneath. Siichaq’s third album in three years.
Maybe Violet are recording a six-song EP in Dutch for early 2027
The duo of Jordi Prats and Monique van der Kolk, formed after Harvest, is recording a six-song EP sung entirely in Dutch, still untitled.
Tom Morello and Serj Tankian play “Like A Stone” for Chris Cornell at Morello’s festival
It happened on 3 October at Merriweather Post Pavilion. The song is Audioslave’s and the pro-shot video has been released in full.
The two Wilco men behind The Autumn Defense bring “Here And Nowhere” to Reus on 18 October and Barcelona on the 20th
John Stirratt and Pat Sansone play seven Spanish dates, two of them in Catalonia: the Festival Accents in Reus and the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm with Delicatessen.
Mike McCready and Matt Cameron play “Loud Love”, “Outshined” and “Spoonman” with Taylor Momsen at Tom Morello’s festival
Three Soundgarden songs at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday 3 October, with the band’s original drummer and Pearl Jam’s guitarist. Morello joined them.
Mike Patton brings Mondo Cane to Mexico and opens the Cervantino festival today
On 1 October at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with orchestra, choir and Mariachi Gama 1000 for the encore. Today he plays Guanajuato to open the 54th Cervantino.
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Andros Insidium
The sixth solo record from Vastum’s guitarist, on Ishtar’s descent: thirty-seven minutes of drone and trumpet, with harsh vocals on two tracks only.
DIIV share the video for “Trillions”, the third advance track from “ZIRP!”
The album is out on 30 October through Fantasy, eleven tracks produced by A. G. Cook. It’s the band’s first since “Frog In Boiling Water”, from May 2024.
The Smashing Pumpkins put “The Aeroplane Flies High” back on vinyl, thirteen years after the last time
The five-LP box arrives on 18 December through UMe, as a standard set and on coloured vinyl. It collects the expanded editions of the five “Mellon Collie” singles.
Maika Makovski – Live-Palau!
Twenty-one tracks from the twentieth-anniversary show at the Palau, with the Quartet Brossa, Rosenvinge, Anni B Sweet and Howe Gelb, and eight songs from that night left out.
Kim Deal releases the first orchestral concert of her career on 13 November
Eighteen songs recorded at the Barbican in London on 1 March 2025, with twenty-five musicians and the Shards choir, and a concert film directed by Cuan Roche.
Talking Heads reissue “Fear of Music” with two 1979 concerts that have never been released
The box arrives on 13 November with the remastered album, the Boston and Passaic shows, an unfinished outtake and the 5.1 and Atmos mixes on Blu-ray.
Palaye Royale release “Amsterdamage” on 22 January and say they would have split without it
The sixth album comes out on Sumerian and was written in 2025, the year after their mother died. The European leg in March has no Spanish date.
Maiah Wynne – Into The Waves
Envy of None’s singer reaches her second solo album: twelve tracks cut on a laptop in hotel rooms, with Alex Lifeson on two of them.
Annicke Shireen releases her first solo album, “Delirium”, on 13 November
Ten tracks moving between alternative rock, metal, synthpop, folk and grunge. The first single, “Come To Light”, is out with a video.
Fontaines D.C. release the video for “Tongue” and reach a sold-out Sant Jordi Club
It’s the second single from “Dopamine Chamber”, out 16 October on XL. Eight days later they play Barcelona, one of four sold-out European dates.
Enter Shikari go dormant on 31 December 2027 and say they don’t know whether they’ll come back
The statement talks about dormancy rather than a split, but admits the band have no diary beyond 2027. A UK tour and new music come first.
Tom Morello’s festival with Springsteen and Joan Baez streams free on YouTube on Saturday
The Power to the People Festival takes place on Saturday in Maryland and will be streamed in full and for free on YouTube from one in the afternoon, Eastern time.
Enter Shikari stop on 31 December 2027, twenty years after “Take To The Skies”
The St Albans band will stop recording and playing from 31 December 2027. “It may end with an eruption back into activity, or may end with extinction.”
Agent Fresco
Agent Fresco, a Reykjavík quartet founded in 2008, combines progressive rock, math rock and art rock; their most recent album is Destrier (2015).
Death From Above 1979 release “Private Lives” on 29 January, their first record since 2021
The Toronto duo’s fifth album lands on 29 January and the title track is out now. The North American tour starts in February.
David Sylvian’s first record since “Manafon” is a single 46-minute instrumental piece, out 26 February
“The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing” arrives on 26 February via NANOQ. It’s a single 46-minute instrumental piece, built from sessions recorded between 2012 and 2025.
The Flaming Lips reissue “At War With The Mystics” across six discs, with thirty-three tracks never released before
Nineteen unheard demos and fourteen unreleased studio recordings, forty-two non-album tracks and two concerts, one of them at the Hollywood Bowl and still unissued. Out on 13 November.
Sargent House reissues Emma Ruth Rundle’s “Marked for Death” and “On Dark Horses”, in shops on 4 December
“Marked for Death” is ten years old to the day, and the label has used the date to open pre-orders on both records, with two runs of five hundred copies and tour-only variants.
Chelsea Wolfe – The Dark
Ten songs that all fit between 3:17 and 4:31, with Robin Finck and Matt Chamberlain in the band. Chelsea Wolfe’s ninth album has the songs in place and the mix against it.
Orella d’Ós
Orella d’Ós, the Matadepera progressive pop-rock band with influences from Porcupine Tree and Radiohead.